Under examination is how the Sydney Christian Life Centre and Hills Christian Life Centre (now Hillsong Church) and Assemblies of God in Australia (now Australian Christian Churches) treated allegations against Frank Houston and two other men. The commission will also examine responses to allegations from the 1980s and 90s against a former teacher, Kenneth Sandilands, at the Northside Christian College and the Northside Christian Centre (now Encompass Church) in Bundoora, Victoria

The Salvation Army has had 473 complaints about abuse in its Victorian children's homes, has spent nearly $20 million so far settling them and could give no explanation of how predators got away with it for so long - but it denied there had been a culture of abuse (The Age, Australia)